Thursday Night subscription booking now open.
General booking, including Afternoon Performances, opens on Fri 5 May
Book between 4 and 15 concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series and save up to 30%. Seniors are entitled to an extra 5% off. Your discount will be automatically applied at the online checkout.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Opening Night: Mahler 4
MÜLLER-HERMANN Heroic Overture (c.12 mins)
RYAN WIGGLESWORTH Piano Concerto (c.21 mins)
MAHLER Symphony No.4 (c.54 mins)
Steven Osborne piano
Sally Matthews soprano
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
It begins like a fairy tale. A jangle of sleighbells, a flurry of birdsong from the flutes – and is that a melody by Mozart? Not quite: Mahler said that he imagined pure blue skies when he composed his Fourth Symphony. But the Fourth has depths as poignant and profound as anything he ever wrote, and with soprano Sally Matthews joining our Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth, it’ll make a blissful ending to this concert. Before this, there’s the soaring Heroic Overture by Mahler’s Viennese contemporary Johanna Müller-Hermann and the great Scottish pianist, Steven Osborne, performs Ryan Wigglesworth’s own, brilliantly imaginative Piano Concerto. A performance doesn’t get more definitive than this.
Tickets: £30, £25, £20, £15
Concessions: £6.00 - Under 26s, Students (in full-time education), Registered Unemployed to the Thursday Night Series.
50% Discount - Registered Disabled
Age Restrictions: Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult.